GEOLOGIST

Francis Beaufort

1774 - 1857

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Sir Francis Beaufort ( BOH-fərt; 27 May 1774 – 17 December 1857) was an Irish hydrographer, the creator of the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale, and a naval officer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis Beaufort has received more than 275,091 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Francis Beaufort is the 12th most popular geologist, the 35th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 30th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Geologist.

Francis Beaufort is most famous for the Beaufort Wind Scale, which he created in 1805.

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  • 62.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GEOLOGISTS

Among geologists, Francis Beaufort ranks 12 out of 90. Before him are Inge Lehmann, Andrija Mohorovičić, Mary Anning, James Hutton, Eduard Suess, and Friedrich Mohs. After him are Vasily Dokuchaev, Abraham Gottlob Werner, William Smith, Beno Gutenberg, Christian Leopold von Buch, and Ignacy Domeyko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1774, Francis Beaufort ranks 8. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Biot, Auguste de Marmont, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands, Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, and Gaspare Spontini. After him are Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, William Henry, Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, and Charles Bell. Among people deceased in 1857, Francis Beaufort ranks 12. Before him are Alfred de Musset, Dominic Savio, Mikhail Glinka, Eugène Sue, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and Louis-Eugène Cavaignac. After him are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Louis Jacques Thénard, Johan Christian Dahl, Mangal Pandey, and Josef Ressel.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Francis Beaufort ranks 35 out of 549. Before him are Causantín mac Cináeda (836), Iris Murdoch (1919), Bono (1960), Bertie Ahern (1951), Gabriel Byrne (1950), and Brendan Gleeson (1955). After him are John Field (1782), Rory Gallagher (1948), Joseph Murphy (1898), Ernest Walton (1903), Maureen O'Hara (1920), and Bob Geldof (1951).

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Among GEOLOGISTS In Ireland

Among geologists born in Ireland, Francis Beaufort ranks 1. After him are Richard Kirwan (1733).

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